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Empress Maria then said to both Georgia and Drake, "As Captain Felix - The Redhead - said, the Heartless [i]are[/i] the black creatures that you people have mentioned, with beady yellow eyes. Despite their name, they are actualy disembodied Hearts - The metaphysical kind, not the bodily one, just in case there is any confusion. The silvery-skinned... Lifeforms are Nobodies, made up of the body and soul left behind when the metaphysical Heart is torn out. Some Nobodies are just that, silver creatures, while others," She looked at Tocsax, "Have a human form and the potential to grow a new Heart."

A final pause for effect, "And yes, three hundred thousand credits in gold, silver, and gemstones have already been prepared for your arrival; let it not be said that we are miserly." 

Then as Noel made his outburst and turned to leave, Emperor Michael said, "We know about your family's collection of masks, by the way, and your need to retrieve them." 

A smile on his face as he knew it'd stop Noel in his tracks.  

Empress Maria then paused to say, "Now, back to the Original History." 

At that, Damianos altered the mystic hologram he was projecting to show a single Earth, a blue-green globe spinning silently in the cosmos, while the Empress began to narrate, "In the Original Earth, in the years 2019 to 2020 Christian Era, there was once a boy named Ascot, who believed that the world was heading headlong into destruction."

The hologram then zoomed into the North American Continent, where a young man with black hair and eyes - Just like Tocsax - was reading a book on a desk already stacked with them.

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Empress Maria then continued, "Ascot was a genius, smart and inquisitive beyond his years. But due to his belief that the people of the world were destroying themselves, he searched and searched for a way to prevent such a calamity. And he found it in old texts and new physics, ones that spoke of a mysterious force that we know today as The Light, or [i]Lux[/i]. All Light flowed from a mysterious place called Kingdom Hearts, the Heart of existence."

The hologram shifted to a giant 'heart', one that looked like a sterotypical Valentines' Day Heart, only it glowed blue-and-white, while its left side was marked with darker spots that made it look like the Moon's surface. Maria continued, "Kingdom Hearts was protected by its counterpart, the X-blade; pronounced 'Key-blade'. And Ascot managed to summon said X-blade to himself, becoming its legitimate owner and giving him the power to save his world... Just as the nations of the world were launching weapons of imaginable power - Nuclear Weapons."

Damianos added, "Nuclear Weapons, to those who do not know, are instruments of war that can cause conflagrations which could destroy entire cities."

((To be continued in Part 2.))

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